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This has parallels with the secret groundbreaking military technology that "60 Minutes"[1] was talking about in 2008. When you have unlimited capacity to store data and the process…

Today we can confidently guess that THIS is the secret groundbreaking military technology that "60 Minutes" was alluding to in 2008. Reporter Bob Woodward (known for breaking much …

Wikipedia has lots of interesting info about South Korea's RRN number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number Basically it's a 13-digit number with format yymmdd…

I'm not seeing the risk if it's a publicly available address. Analogy: They tested every door lock in America. They found that 64,000 door locks are trivially opened. They put up a…

Check if your site uses a known weak key here: https://factorable.net/keycheck.html Enter a domain name or an IP address.

If you want truly unbreakable encryption, there's always the one-time pad. In that case, the unbreakability is guaranteed by mathematics, an even stronger guarantee than physics. C…

While this is good science and I enjoy hearing about it, it needs to be said that "unbreakable" encryption is a solved problem. The existing public key plus symmetric key infrastru…

I think Kogan has already stopped supporting IE7 because IE7 hangs if you do visit! To be clear: I wanted to see this amusing "tax notice" first hand, but when I visit kogan.com us…

The dichotomy is not "nice to have" vs. "must have" -- it is whether the threat is "visible" vs. "invisible" when it concerns privacy and security for consumers. Phone calls being …

I remember news from a few years ago in which brokers and analysts at some company discovered that a particular way of sending emails on BlackBerrys prevented the messages from bei…

Your use-case would work so long as both sides use general-purpose computers. We've made our app work for Windows, and we believe it can be made to work under Mac OS X and Linux. T…

Original author here. My colleagues and I have been kicking this idea around and we built a proof of concept under Windows. I'd like to hear HN comments. Has this been done before?…

150 degrees Fahrenheit (65 C) would exceed the highest surface temperature ever recorded on Earth -- by a wide margin. I can't find a good reference at the moment, but I think 150F…

I think it's a great idea and wish these guys success. But isn't eBay (and perhaps Craigslist) in a much better position to provide this functionality? They have enormous historica…

"How is believing in your product an excuse for not trying to minimise risk. Especially if you know that most startups fail, there's no good reason not to hedge your bets." Would y…

The author, Cringely, mentions that he helped write the business plan for Illustrator, Adobe Systems’ first consumer product. But you never get to see the business plans of super s…

Magnetic visualizer sprays are also great fun -- assuming that you can still buy any of them. You can actually see the magnetically recorded data on floppies, the magnetic stripe o…

And there is a system called Deniable Video extends that concept of plausible deniability to live audio & video. It's like TrueCrypt for real-time data.

Cleese talks about how multitasking is destructive to the creative process (at time code 6m:30s): "But if you're racing around all day, ticking things off on lists, looking at your…

> adoption was hindered by the word "nuclear." This is exactly why NMR machines are now called MRIs. "NMR and MRI are essentially the same technique, except MRI is used to analyze …